Eric Wall
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@brian_trollz @nic_carter sometimes you ask really stupid questions






Quantum panel on bitcoin at @satsconf_. Interesting to note that Quantum Engineer @StepanSnigirev believes the risk may only be serious in about 20 years. Far cry from the typical 2-5 year timeline we're hearing from some. @tdryja points out that some of these companies making a lot of noise to raise money would find it a lot harder to raise if they admit the risk is more like multiple decades out.






Scott Aaronson on his blog talking about Shor's, quantum, and crypto: 'When I got an early heads-up about these results—especially the Google team’s choice to "publish" via a zero-knowledge proof—I thought of Frisch and Peierls, calculating how much U-235 was needed for a chain reaction in 1940, but not publishing it, even though the latest results on nuclear fission had been openly published just the year prior. Will we, in quantum computing, also soon cross that threshold? But I got strong pushback on that analogy from the cryptography and cybersecurity people who I most respect. They said: we have decades of experience with this, and the answer is that you publish. And, they said, if publishing causes people still using quantum-vulnerable systems to crap their pants … well, maybe that’s what needs to happen right now.'



I found a book that legit feels like a book I’ve been searching for all my life ”What is Intelligence” by @blaiseaguera Published a month ago in @mitpress and is free to read I don’t know the author, but I’m extremely grateful to people who put in the work to write this.










